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Show BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT: Harry Reasoner is "sick and tired of playing second fiddle to Barbara Walters" and wants to "divorce" Ms co-anchor on ABC-TV's nightly evening news, reveals a Washington source close to Harry. The source quotes Harry as complaining, "I didn't like the idea to begin with, but who am I? They (ABC) run the show and I just work for them. But what I do and the way I do it as a news anchorman is strictly not compatible with the way Barbara wants to do things. She's more the PR (public relations) or magazine host type of personality, per-sonality, while I'm just a hard-bitten old newsman doing the job I know best. I think they (ABC) should have realized this when they brought Barbara over from NBC with that $1 million offer and placed her where she truly belonged, instead of allowing her to invade a territory she was unfamiliar with. But, like I said, who am I?" . . . Henry Winkler, TV's famous Fonzie, isn't afraid to dabble in magic and claims to have had several occult experiences. "I've been getting these psychic flashes since I was a kid back in New York," he explains. Winkler is desperately trying to get away from his Fonzie character. He's going to cut his hair and dye it blonde for his role in the movie 'Gorgeous George.' Incidentally, when casting the Fonzie role, ABC was originally looking for a blonde actor. TV BACKSTAGE: ' Most of my friends are dead or in jail," reveals Robert Blake, TV's 'Baretta,' "and, if I hadn't hit it lucky, I'd be planted, too. I spent the first 20 years of my life not lovin' nobody. That's why I got a lot of lovin' to make up." . . Anson Williams, the singing Potsie on TV's 'Happy Days.' has signed a long-term recording contract with Chelsea Records. His first release is titled 'Deeply' and was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox, the same team that wrote the theme songs to 'Happy Days' and Laverne & Shirley' . . . Christopher George who recently completed the movie 'Whisky Mountain.' which contains a violent rape scene-shudders scene-shudders when he considers the possibility of someone raping his gorgeous wife, actress Lynda Day. "It's the most frightening thing m the world to me as a man," confesses George Of all crimes, it is the most hideous. I stop and look at my ctnldren, my wife, my friends, their wives, and I think that anytime this can happen. I think kids should not be frightened, but be aware these things are there It isn t something you live in fear of," adds 47-year-old George Thai's a pretty rotten way to live in fear." Christopher and Lynda Day George, who starred in TV's 'Roots.' have one of the most stable marriages in Hollywood They constantly shower each other with compliments "I m rra-ned to one of the most beautiful women in the world mo cooks for me, does light carpentry car-pentry and plumbing anrj is the most incredible woman I've ever run into." Chns told me. INSIDE THE TUBE t'.w.n fabulous Farrah Fawcett-Majors goes charging oft m dii directions to make the 42 or so movies clamoring for hor services, Charlie will have a replacement Angel a'i ady. 'Charlie's Angels' won't go down. TV circles ms s! Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith, the other two Arqp'-, ran carry the program by themselves, them-selves, they say brav v But they won't have to: there's a new girl in sight being :roorred for the moment of need She is Susan Anton, ?r. most notable all over TV, and anparentiy doing a s-" -kmq-hot Ob of it. ton |
